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May 9, 2010

G32: Red Sox 9, Yankees 3

Lester was on (7-4-2-2-7, 103) and the bats socked it to Burnett in the third.

J.D. Drew singled to start the second, moved up on a wild pitch, and scored when Marcus Thames misplayed Jeremy Hermida's fly ball to deep left. RBIs in the third came from Drew's sac fly, David Ortiz's double, Adrian Beltre's double (2 RBI), and Hermida's single. Kevin Youkilis doubled home Dustin Pedroia in the fourth. In the fifth, after Beltre doubled again, Hermida belted a dong (#4) to right.

Manny Delcarmen allowed three singles and a run in the eighth and Tim Wakefield threw a perfect ninth on 10 pitches.

Oakland's Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game against Tampa Bay this afternoon -- the 19th in history -- so the Red Sox gained a game on the FKR.

L-girl said... They need wins , I don'y care how they get them , they just need wins...

Well duh.

Doesn't mean there aren't other things to look at or talk about.

Captain Obvious, I know....My bigger point being, we pitch and play d we will win .Offensive numbers can make you dizzy , there are way too many of them....They are used for front offices and fantasy players.

The 19 also does not include my man Ernie Shore. He of the "Historic Ernie Shore Field in Winston-Salem, NC" fame :)Of course he only pitched to 26 batters, so he doesn't get the perfect game, but still. Honorable mention is in order

The game in question was started with Babe Ruth pitching. He walked the first batter of the game and was ejected for arguing with the umpire about the calls. Shore came in to replace him. The batter Ruth walked was thrown out attempting to steal, and Shore retired he next 26. Not a perfect game, unfortunately. Strange but true.Have I got that right RS?

Ernie Shore retired to Winston-Salem and was the County Sheriff here for years. He became close friends with the grandfather of my buddy Bob, who often sits here watching a game with me while I chat with you guys. He, Bobby's grandfather, was the first Game Warden of the county. I've heard some killer stories, most involving moonshine. :)

Ruth's catcher was also ejected after the walk. Part of the story is that Ruth was out late the night before (like when wasn't he out late?) and was busy chatting with friends in the stands rather than warming up properly, so he was rusty.

He was fined $100 and suspended 10 games. This came only two weeks after John McGraw punched an ump in the NL!

Bobby's grandfather, as game warden, apparently knew where all the best stills were at. He helped Shore locate the moonshine, but not the stills or the owners. See, Shore didn't want to bust anybody, he just wanted the shine. They also liked to see how fast the county cars could be pushed out on Hwy 421

Apparently he bought out section 209 in the park (his old zip code) and brought friends and his grandmother (who raised him after his mom died from cancer). Then, after the game his grandmother is quoted as saying ”Stick it, A-Rod”.

The Ernie Shore game is something that always bugs me. I know the way it happened, but the Red Sox still refer to it in the media guide as the only perfect game pitched at Fenway, since he got all 27 outs.

It's always bugged me that that could be considered a perfect game when there was a baserunner, and it's not even a CG. I know the PG total is 19 now (or better I knew it as 17 before Buerhle's and Braden's) so if Ernie Shore isn't one of those 19 then I guess it's not.

So how can the Red Sox recognize it as such when MLB does not?

And then there's the no-hit games display at the HOF. Can't remember if Shore's is listed there or not, but Pedro's non-PG is, as well as Matt Young's NH that wasn't really a NH.

The current official Major League Baseball definition of a perfect game is largely a side effect of the decision made by the major leagues' Committee for Statistical Accuracy on September 4, 1991, to redefine a no-hitter as a game in which the pitcher or pitchers on one team throw a complete game of nine innings or more without surrendering a hit. That decision removed a number of games that had long appeared in the record books: those lasting fewer than nine innings, and those in which a team went hitless in regulation but then got a hit in extra innings. The definition of perfect game was made to parallel this new definition of the no-hitter, in effect substituting "baserunner" for "hit". As a result of the 1991 redefinition, for instance, Harvey Haddix receives credit for neither a perfect game nor a no-hitter for the game described below in which he threw 12 perfect innings before allowing a baserunner in the 13th.

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1991 was sticking in my head but it seemed like too long ago to be right. Maybe it wasn't Selig only then.

Hah. When I just got home and turned on the TV and saw who was announcing, I knew I could come to this thread and see the phrase "rally killing home runs." JOS never disappoints! Here's to a long winning streak, and not panicking in May.

Sorry to keep going on about it, but one last comment. This year's Media Guide marks the Hansack and Matt Young games as "not considered official no-hitter" but still has Shore's as a perfect game. It certainly seems like it shouldn't be, and I want to be accurate, so it bugs me that there are inconsistencies between the "official" perfect game list and the "offical" Red Sox publications.

Right, even though it was a 9-inning game and he pitched the whole thing. But we were on the road and he gave up 2 runs so CLE had the lead, so no bottom of the 9th. That's always seemed really unfair to me!

I believe Girardi was arguing the K of Thames. As my father pointed out, I'm glad they tossed Girardi and not Thames, so Thames could keep mis-fielding all our hits.

Pardon me for butting in with a non-topical question, but I'm hoping some helpful fellow fans can help me figure something out.

I'm flying to Boston tomorrow, from my home in Denver, with plans to take my parents and my wife and my two daugthers to the Sox game on Wednesday (first time at Fenway Park for my wife & kids). We bought tickets months ago, and have been planning this trip for a long time.

The weather forecast, unfortunately, looks pretty miserable, and I'm trying to make contingency plans. A few questions:

1) What does it typically take to get a game rained out at Fenway, as opposed to proceeding in miserable rainy conditions?

2) Assuming it's raining steadily from mid-morning on, and the radars show no likelihood of a letup, will they still go through the motions of preparing for the game right up until game time (such that we'd need to go to the park, take our seats, etc.), only to make a cancellation announcement at the last minute, or might they make a decision an hour before gametime or whatever?

3) If the game DOES get cancelled, is it likely they would reschedule it for an afternoon game on Thursday (when the Sox are idle), or are they more likely to postpone it to either an *evening* game on Thursday (no good for my girls) or some far-off future date, when I'll be back in Colorado?

For what it's worth, here is the current weather forecast from the National Weather Service:

Wednesday: Rain, mainly after 10am. High near 51. South southeast wind between 6 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Rain, mainly before 10pm. The rain could be heavy at times. Low around 44. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Toronto is also off on Thursday, and then they go home. Boston is off and flies to Detroit. So no long flights. But it's hard to say about the time of day if they did play on Thursday. If I had to guess, I'd say at night.

Jays are in twice more -- for Fri-Sat-Sun series in August and September. Unlikely to double up any of those games.

HOWEVER, Sox and Jays are both off on the Thursday before the Sept. series. Jays are coming from nearby Baltimore but the Sox are coming home from Seattle.